Mosquito-canopy



(No Model.)

A. MILLER. MOSQUITO CANOPY.

' IINVENTOH-Q" Patented June 3 UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE...

AUGUSTUS MILLER, OF HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY.

MOSQUITOFCANOPY- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 429,355, dated June 3, 1890.

Application filed November 14, 1889. Serial No. 330,303. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AUGUSTUS MILLER, of Iloboken, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Mosquito-Canopies, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Myinvention relates to an improvement in mosquito-canopies, and has for its object to provide a device capable of attachment to a bedstead, in which device the netting to be spread over the bed may be rolled up when not in use, and wherein the said device, when attached to the bed, maybe carried down below the top of the head-board or foot-board, when the netting is rolled therein and virtually concealed from view.

A further object of the invention is to so attach the netting to the roller that when it is drawn out therefrom one section may be folded down at each side of the bed and a third section at the foot.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters and figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective View of a bedstead having the canopy applied. Fig. 2 is a partial elevation of the inner face of a foot-board, illustrating the attachment of the device. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section through a roller and its casing. Fig. 4 is a transverse section through a roller and easing, illustrating the netting as drawn out therefrom. Fig. 5 is a' similar View illustrating the netting as almost entirely rolled upon the roller; and Fig. 6 is a perspective view of one corner of the device attached to the foot-board, illustrating the draping of the netting when drawn out from the device.

In carrying out the invention I employ a casingA, preferably constructed in two hinged sections 10 and 11, the said casing being ordinarily of sufficient length to extend practically from one side of the head or foot board to the other. The casing is preferably secured to the foot-board 12 of the bed and is attached by means of strap-hinges B, (best shown in Fig. 2,) the hinges consisting of two members 13 and 14, one member being hinged upon the other, and the lower member at its hinged end is provided with an extension or stud 15, which, when the hinge is in a vertical or upright position, contacts with a stud 16 upon the upper member, and by so 0011- tacting the hinge is prevented from breaking laterally in one direction.

: The upper extremity of the upper member of each hinge is secured in any suitable or approved manner to the casing 10, preferably at the rear of the same, and the lower extremity of the lower member is pivotally attached to the foot-board 12, ordinarily through the medium of an interposed block 17, which block is provided with two or more stop-pins 18, as is also best shown in Fig. 2.

Vhen the hinges are in the perpendicular position shown in Fig. 2, the casing is elevated above the top of the foot-board, and when the casing is not in use the hinges are broken inward at their pivotal point and folded downward until the lower member contacts with the pins 18 upon the blocks, as shown in dotted lines, Fig. 2, whereupon the casin g is made to essentially contact with the inner face of the foot-board and to occupy a position below the top thereof. The casing is provided upon its inner face with a longitudinal opening 19, and within the casing a spring-roller 20, of any approved construction, is journaled.

Thenetting D is attached at one end to the spring-roller 20 and carried outward through the opening 19 in the casing, and to its other enda strip 21, of wood, metal, or other material, is preferably attached, of suflicient length to extend beyond the end walls of the casingopening and contact with the outer face of the casing when the netting is rolled within the same.

The netting is preferably constructed in four sectionsnamely, a top section 22, side sections 23, and an end section 24;. The top section is of a width corresponding, essentially, to the width of the bed, and of a length sufficient to extend from the casing to the head-board, for instance, and when drawn out from the casing is held in the horizontal position by the strip 21 being made to engage with brackets or other suitable devices attached to the head-board.

The side sections 23 are attached in any suitable or approved manner to the side edges of the top section, and near that end of the top section secured to the roller the end section 24: is secured, as best shown in Fig. 4, the said end section extending from side to side of the top section. The side sections 23 at the roller end are preferably made of sufficient length to form a flap 25, capable of overlapping the posts of the foot-board and of attachment at the upper end to the rear of the casing.

In operation, the canopy having been drawn over the bed, as shown in Fig. 1, to inclose the same in the casing A, the side sections are thrown up over or upon the top section and the end section upon the folded side sections, or vice versa. The strip 21 is then detached from the head-board, and the spring of the roller acting causes the folded netting to wind around the roller within the casing. The hinges B are then broken at the joints and the casing dropped down out of sight.

To spread the canopy, the hinges B are straightened out, thereby elevating the easing A, and through the medium of the strip 21, which is exposed at the inner side of the casing, the netting is drawn out from the easing and the strip attached to the head-board in the manner hereinbefore stated. The end section of the netting is then thrown down over the casing, covering the outer face of the foot-board, and, finally, the side sections are thrown down and secured at their forward ends, if necessary, to the posts of the head-board and to the casing at the foot end of the bed through the medium of the flaps 25, as above described.

It is obvious that the device may be cheaply manufactured and that it is thoroughly operative, and, further, that the netting may be expeditiously and conveniently spread out to the canopy form and may be concealed from view when not in use.

Having thus described my invention,I claim 1. The combination, with a casing and a spring-actuated roller journaled within the same, of a netting canopy-attached at one end to the said roller, said canopy comprising a top section, side sections attached to the longitudinal edges of the top section, and an end section secured to the upper surface of the top section near one end thereof, substantially as shown and described, whereby the side and end sections may be folded upon the top section and all wound upon the roller within the casing, as and for the purpose specified.

2. The combination, with a casing constructed in two hinged sections and provided with a longitudinal opening in one side, and a spring-actuated roller journaled in said casing, of a netting canopy secured at one end to the said roller, consisting of a horizontal top section, two side sections attached to,

the longitudinal edges of the top section, and an end section secured to the top section near one end, the side and end sections being capable of folding over upon the top section, and a stay-rod attached to the free end of the top section of the canopy, all combined for operation substantially as shown and described.

3. The combination, with a casing provided with an opening in one side, a spring-actuated roller j ournaled in saidcasing,an d strap-hinges secured to the casing and adapted for attachment to the head or foot board, the said hinges being provided with stops limiting their outward and inward movement, of a netting canopy attached at one end to the roller, capable of extending horizontally over the bed and down at its sides, and also provided with an end section attached in front of the casing, and means, substantially as shown and described, for securing the free end of the eanopy to the head-board, as and for the purpose specified.

AUGUSTUS MILLER. \Vitnesses:

CHARLES J. SAENGER, J. F. ACKER, Jr. 

